Associate Professor Wang Cheng of City University of Hong Kong and his team collaborated with researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong to develop microwave photonic chips with faster processing speed and lower energy consumption using lithium niobate as a platform, which can use optics for ultra-fast analog electronic signal processing and calculations. .
According to reports, this chip is 1,000 times faster than traditional electronic processors, consumes less energy, and has a wide range of applications, covering 5/6G wireless communication systems, high-resolution radar systems, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and image and video processing .
Tachyon chips achieve this outstanding performance through an integrated microwave photonic processing engine based on a thin-film lithium niobate platform that performs multi-purpose processing and calculations of analog signals.
The upstream of the optical module industry is mainly manufacturers of optical devices, optical chips, electrical chips, PCBs and structural parts, as well as optical module packaging and testing equipment suppliers. Downstream are mainly communication equipment manufacturers. Telecom equipment and data communication equipment used in optical modules are mainly used in 5G, optical fiber broadband, data centers, consumer electronics, autonomous driving and other fields.
The research team has developed a world-leading microwave photonic chip that is 1,000 times faster than existing processors. Therefore, from the perspective of the optical module industry chain, optical chip technology is in the upstream link of the industry chain.
The research results of Wang Cheng's team not only opened up a new research field, namely lithium niobate microwave photonics, making microwave photonic chips smaller, with high signal fidelity and low latency performance, but also are the basis for chip-level analog electronic processing and computing engines. breakthrough.